LEGO and Nintendo have just revealed the next wave of Lego Super Mario expansion sets, appropriately based on the fright-filled Luigi’s Mansion spin-off series. Mario's fearful, green-clad brother was brought into Lego Super Mario back in August with his own Lego Super Mario expansion set, complete with a special high-tech Minifigure that allows players to team up with the previously released Mario in co-op play.
Since it was first released last summer, LEGO Super Mario has been one of LEGO’s most successful product launches in recent memory, with its high-sales figures possibly paving the way for further LEGO-Nintendo collaborations based on franchises like The Legend Of Zelda or Star Fox. In the meantime, both companies have been building on the toy/board game/video game hybrid with additional LEGO Super Mario sets centered around famous characters like Bowser and the Piranha Plant, as well as costume packs that give players access to Mario’s many power-up forms from the Super Mario games.
Earlier today, VGC reported that LEGO and Nintendo have just announced three new LEGO Super Mario sets to be released next January, all based on Luigi’s Mansion. As shown in the LEGO Super Mario Luigi’s Mansion set trailer on Nintendo’s official YouTube channel, these playsets consist of the “Lab And Poltergust” set, which features Luigi’s trusty ghost-busting vacuum and a LEGO version of Professor E Gadd, the “Entryway” set that includes Luigi’s Polterpup companion, and the larger “Haunt-and-Seek” set that is centered around the ghostly King Boo and features plenty of traps and puzzles.
Watch the trailer for the new LEGO Super Mario sets on YouTube here.
All three of these sets are based on 2001's Luigi’s Mansion, a spooky spin-off centered around Mario’s brother that served as a launch title for the then-new Nintendo GameCube. This creepy adventure had players guide Luigi through the titular haunted mansion, exposing the many ghosts that inhabit it with a flashlight and capturing them with a high-powered Poltergust 3000 vacuum. Two sequels were released in the decade since the original Luigi’s Mansion became an instant cult classic: 2013’s Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon for the Nintendo 3DS and the more recent Luigi’s Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch back in 2019.
The newly-announced LEGO Super Mario Luigi’s Mansion sets won’t be hitting store shelves until January 1, 2022, but it isn’t difficult to imagine that Nintendo chose today to reveal them due to Halloween. In any case, players will be able to add the LEGO Super Mario Lab and Poltergust Expansion Set (currently priced at $24.99), Entryway Expansion Set ($39.99), and Haunt-and-Seek Expansion Set ($79.99) to their ever-building Lego Super Mario collections next year.
Source: VGC, Nintendo/YouTube